Word: contender
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first is an insufficient belief in the reality of the enemy. We have been slow to realize just what sort of thing we must contend with...
...these were with high school combinations. In the lineup of the sailors, however, there are enough men of intercollegiate reputation to give the informals a real test of their power. This game will be unlike those of recent years; we are featuring no special stars nor a team to contend for championships, but rather a seven which is organized primarily for recreation, without professional coaching or an elaborate system of training. We have neither a reputation to uphold nor any intercollegiate honors to strive for. Instead, we believe that the beneficent results of athletics are not dependent on a formally...
...exactly the same way we must contend with the belief of the average German that he will be made an economic and political slave unless he keeps the enemy at bay. In the words of President Wilson, we are fighting the German government and not the German people. But how about England and France? They must also show by some new and unquestioned means that they do not mean to be vindictive or revengeful. Otherwise the mere declaration by President Wilson, while our arms unite in effecting the purposes of our allies, will and cannot be accepted in Germany...
...that some form of paternalism would not be desirable. The Quadrangler is not disposed to quarrel with those who assert that the average professor, with his exact mind and his curious notions of what the public ought to know, is ill-fitted to run a newspaper but he does contend that something ought to be done to insure the use of decent English in news stories and at least an attempt at a reasonable continuity of policy and purpose. Consider the case of the Princetonian and the Harvard Crimson. During the first semester of the college year the Princetonian...
...University team will go to Fall River today to contend with the Fall River Country Club. Tomorrow a match will be played with the Rhode Island State team at Providence...